Instagram image and video downloader with URL validation and cURL integration
Instagram Photo and video download helper library.
New: Checkout TikTokOff - TikTok video online downloader (no watermarks)
Update on May 22, 2020: Due to Instagram no longer allowing anonymous users to view photos/videos, this library is currently not working. A new version 7 is in the works, but there is no ETA yet. Only IGTV videos are working now
Old and unsupported versions
Old and minimally supported versions
I wrote this class mainly for my online Instagram photo, video and IGTV downloader, but I thought share this piece for your own extensions.
With composer Install the library by running the following in your project.
composer require ayesh/instagram-download
Without composer
Download the zip file from Github, and configure your autoload handler to autoload PSR-4 Ayesh\InstagramDownload
namespace from the downloaded contents src
directory.
You could also manually require the file. Requires a certain amount of guilty feeling because it's 2017 and you are not using a decent autoload mechanism.
require_once 'src/InstagramDownload.php'
<?php
use Ayesh\InstagramDownload\InstagramDownload;
$url = 'http://instagram.com/p/tmwAlCGygb/';
try {
$client = new InstagramDownload($url);
$url = $client->getDownloadUrl(); // Returns the download URL.
$type = $client->getType(); // Returns "image" or "video" depending on the media type.
}
catch (\InvalidArgumentException $exception) {
/*
* \InvalidArgumentException exceptions will be thrown if there is a validation
* error in the URL. You might want to break the code flow and report the error
* to your form handler at this point.
*/
$error = $exception->getMessage();
}
catch (\RuntimeException $exception) {
/*
* \RuntimeException exceptions will be thrown if the URL could not be
* fetched, parsed, or a media could not be extracted from the URL.
*/
$error = $exception->getMessage();
}